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Æon Flux (2005)
Directed by Karyn Kusama
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Most recently watched by VicnaLobster, sensoria, seanCduregger
Overview
400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world’s population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground ‘Monican’ rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.
Rated PG-13 | Length 93 minutes
Actors
Charlize Theron | Marton Csokas | Jonny Lee Miller | Sophie Okonedo | Frances McDormand | Pete Postlethwaite | Amelia Warner | Caroline Chikezie | Nikolai Kinski | Paterson Joseph | Yangzom Brauen | Aoibheann O'Hara | Thomas Huber | Weijian Liu | Maverick Quek | Ralph Herforth | Megan Gay | Rainer Will | Charlie Beall | Bruno Bruni Jr. | Ronald Marx | Axel Schreiber | Katie Mullins | Shaun Lawton | Terry Bartlett | Betty Okino | Anatole Taubman | Lavinia Wilson | Khira Lilli Pobanz | William Morts | Phil Hay | Nils Dommning | Bojan Heyn | Justin Schierlo | Marianne Sonneck | Joost Siedhoff | Tamara Röhl | Narges Rashidi | Claas Würfel | Robin Gooch | Anna De Carlo | Martha Fessehatzion | Milton Welsh | Mehmet Yilmaz | Alex Benjamin | Natacza Boon | Clio Burggraeve | Alexander Flache | Lilja Loeffler | Kim Pfeiffer | Michael Pink | Joachim Schönfeld | Claudine Biswas | Jannik Büddig | Peggy Flood | Mirko Lang | Mickey Nedimovic | Karolin Oesterling | Wil Röttgen | Wolfgang Stegemann | Stuart Townsend | Timmi Trinks
Viewing History (seen 2 times)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/07/2022 | TV | Blu-ray | Owned | 7 stars |
| 12/17/2005 | Movie Screen | Film | Theater | 7 stars |
| (Average) 7 stars |
Viewing Notes
Picked up the Blu at Big Lots in RC for $3 and saw that I only had logged my first viewing of it when it was released so I decided to give it a spin (I have watched it more than once but that was before I started logging views). Given that it’s been 12+ years since whenever I last viewed it, it was a good revisit.
Totally forgot Karyn Kusama directed this! Can understand why this was poorly received; perhaps it was trying to be too much like the cartoon series rather than its own thing. I appreciate that but it’s also very messy trying to cram all these heady concepts into a 90min flick, which also smells of studio tampering. Instead of giving the story space to introduce these ideas it has these clunky exposition drops. What I like, and why I give this a favorable rating, is that everyone here is giving their all to make a cool sci-fi flick. Nice visuals and framing along w/the interesting premise. How the action is filmed is not great and some of the editing is bad but the movie is entertaining and gives a lot of screentime to Charlize, as it should.
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